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SHADE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,161, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed April 5, 1890. Serial No. 346,750. (No model.)

1"9 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, XVILLIAM F. RUSSELL. of East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shade-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient shade-support which may be folded up and reduced in bulk for transportation.

I will describe a shade-support embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a sliadesnpport embodying my improvement in condition for use. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same folded. Fig. 3 is a top view of the same opened preliminarily to folding it for transportation. Fig. 4 is a side view of one of a number of sections of which the shade-support is composed.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

M y shade-support is composed, essentially, of annmber of sections A, made, preferably, of wire, and connected together side by side, and a crown section or ring B, embraced by them. Each of the side sections A consists of a straight portion a, an upper segmental portion (1?, a lower segmental portion a and two tongue-like portions a 60''. Preferably each section will be composed of a single piece of wire bent to the required shape. The straight portions (4 ofthe side pieces are provided with slides a a The tongue-like portions a a of each of the side sections enter the slides of" a of the next adjacent side sections. In this way the several side sections are united together. The slides may be advantageously made of sheet metal, and will preferably be of such size as to tightly embrace the straight portions 0, of the side sections A, to which they belong, and the tonguelike portions a 0, of the adjacent side sections A. These slides may be moved lengthwise of the straight portions (4 of the side sections A, to which they belong, so as to allow of the ton gue-like portions 0. a of the next adjacent side sections to be placed in position. After this the sides will be slid toward the extremities of the straight portions a of the sections to which they belong to embrace the tonguelike portions of the next adjacent sections. By moving the slides a a toward each other so as to pass beyond the tongue-like portions a a which they embrace, the several side sections may be detached. If desirable, the slides a a of only one side section may be slipped beyond the ton gue-like portions a a of the n ext adjacentrside section, to enable the opening of the side sections, as represented in Fig. In this case the sections may be folded together without being fu rther detached and into the compact form shown in Fig. 2. Indeed,all the sections, except two adjacent sections, may be constructed and permanently hinged together in any suitable manner. They are of course hinged together in the construction illustrated, but by means which form detachable hinges. The upper segmental portions (1 of the side sections A embrace the crown section or ring B. It will be seen that the latter flares above and below the center. It is embraced at about the middle by the side sections. It stiffens and stays the side sections, causing them together to form a conical structure.

The crown section or ring maybe provided with prongs Z) for engaging with and embracing the upper portion of a chimney.

I desire to remark that it is not absolutely necessary to wholly open or disconnect one section A from the next adjacent section in order to render it possible to fold the section. It may be sufficient to simply detach one of the upper tongues a of one section from the next section, and even if the ,shadeholder should be made so that it would be impossible to detach any of the sections, except to detach the upper portion of one section from another section adjacentthereto,l should re gard the support as embodying my improvement.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A shade-support composed of a number of side sections hinged togethe one of said side sections being detachably connected with another, and all constructed to removably embrace a crown section or ring, substantially as specified. I

2. A shade-support composed of a crown section or ring and a number of side sections embracing the same hinged together and detaehably connected by means of slides fitted to straight portions of one of the side sections and engaging tongue-like portions of another of said side sections, substantially as specified.

A shade-support composed of a crown section or ring and a number of side sections composed of straight portions a, segmental portions (1 a tongue-like portions (0 a and slides a, a uniting the said side sections, 511 bstantially as specified. \VILLIAM F. RUSSELL. \Vitnesses:

C. R. FURGUSON, S. O. EDMONDS. 

